event.pull freezing loop workaround

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Hi, I'm recently new to OC and am working on porting some of my older programs from CC. I have this simple reactor program that has a few pull events. Issue I'm having is that the pull event freezes the loop until an event happens. I tried to get around this using a timer, but it doesn't seem to work the same as CC. How can I use pull events without freezing my loop? 

Full Code (Events at bottom)

 

Pull Event

  local name, _, x, y = event.pull("touch")
  if y == 1 and x < 30 and x > 18 and reactorOnline then
    r.setActive(false)
  elseif y == 1 and x < 30 and x > 21 then
    r.setActive(true)
  elseif y == 8 and x == 21 or x == 22 then
    r.setAllControlRodLevels(rodLevel - 10)
  elseif y == 8 and x == 28 or x == 29 then
    r.setAllControlRodLevels(rodLevel + 10) 
  end
  os.sleep(0.1)
end

Any help and/or OC advice is appreciated! Thanks!

[Molinko 43]

event.pull has an optional first argument, a timeout. 

local name, _, x, y = event.pull(0.1, "touch")

if name then -- # name will be nil if event.pull(0.1, ...) times out after 0.1 sec
  if y == 1 and x < 30 and x > 18 and reactorOnline then
    r.setActive(false)
  elseif y == 1 and x < 30 and x > 21 then
    r.setActive(true)
  elseif y == 8 and x == 21 or x == 22 then
    r.setAllControlRodLevels(rodLevel - 10)
  elseif y == 8 and x == 28 or x == 29 then
    r.setAllControlRodLevels(rodLevel + 10) 
  end
end

 

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3 hours ago, Molinko said:

event.pull has an optional first argument, a timeout. 

local name, _, x, y = event.pull(0.1, "touch")

if name then -- # name will be nil if event.pull(0.1, ...) times out after 0.1 sec
  if y == 1 and x < 30 and x > 18 and reactorOnline then
    r.setActive(false)
  elseif y == 1 and x < 30 and x > 21 then
    r.setActive(true)
  elseif y == 8 and x == 21 or x == 22 then
    r.setAllControlRodLevels(rodLevel - 10)
  elseif y == 8 and x == 28 or x == 29 then
    r.setAllControlRodLevels(rodLevel + 10) 
  end
end

 

Did not know about that extra argument! Works like a charm! Thanks!